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Drawing on her remarkable personal history, Davar Ardalan brings us the lives of three generations of women and their ordeals with love, rejection, and revolution. Ardalan's Iranian American parents, who barely spoke Farsi, moved from San Francisco to...

At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom Forcade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics and assuming control of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of newspapers across the country. Weathering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780071499118Author Christopher RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 431g

For many Americans, Peter Jennings was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. In this oral biography, readers witness Jennings' extraordinary rise to the top of his profession, but they get to know him as a person, too. It...

Seeing is an award-winning journalist's searing and candid memoir about epidemics, pollution, and domestic violence in contemporary China. Through an intimate narrative, and told with an immediate and gripping voice, Chai Jing describes her life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593229514Author Michael HillFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758232Author Adam GopnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 268g

Bernard Fall wrote the classics Street Without Joy and Hell in a Very Small Place, which detailed the French experience in Vietnam. One of the first (and the best-informed) Western observers to say that the United States could not win there either, he...

In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City." From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residents was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062896391Author Benjamin MoserFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 1134g

The legendary Boss Tweed effectively controlled New York City from after the Civil War until his downfall in November 1871. A huge man, he and his Ring of Thieves appeared to be invincible as they stole an estimated $2 billion in today's dollars. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815731610Author Marvin KalbFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm) 236mm...

A stunning portrait of the complicated woman who becomes Ernest Hemingway's fourth wife, tracing her adventures before she meets Ernest, exploring the tumultuous years of their marriage, and evoking her merry widowhood as she shapes Hemingway's literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802140500Author Walt HarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

"I love Nick Lyons's books. Every sentence is so full and ripe." --Ted Hughes, former Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II FIRE IN THE STRAW is the witty and deeply felt memoir of Nick Lyons, a man with an intrepid desire to reinvent himself--which he...

My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney's World War II. As a young, naive correspondent for The Stars and Stripes , Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France during the D-Day invasion, crossed the Rhine with the Allied...

In 1984 journalist Peregrine Hodson crossed the Pakistan border into Afghanistan with rebel mujahedin smuggling arms and ammunition, beginning a thousand-mile journey through the war-torn nation. Fluent in Farsi, he was able to observe the war with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505509Author Isaiah WilnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 334gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307382962Author Dan RattinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 200mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738961Author Marvin KalbFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 758gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Biography).Book InformationISBN 9780451168382Author Russell BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476766386Author Justin KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982719381Author Stephanie CasherFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Pantheon Collective (Tpc)Publisher Pantheon Collective (Tpc)Weight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994363121Author Douglas H JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Africa World Books Pty LtdPublisher Africa World Books Pty LtdWeight(grams) 292g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578202433Author Jack BehrensFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Jack Behrens PublishingPublisher Jack Behrens PublishingWeight(grams) 249g

Elizabeth Hayt embarked upon holy matrimony with reservations. Once there, she found herself drowning in an ocean of wifely and motherly duties, and at 35, felt there had to be more to life. But she was terrified when her husband called it quits. She...

This first book-length treatment of the life and work of Christine Frederick (1883-1970) reveals an important dilemma that faced educated women of the early twentieth century. Contrary to her professional role as home efficiency expert, advertising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063210202Author April RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

As a correspondent for the International News Service, the Associated Press, and later for the New York Times, Seymour Topping documented on the ground the tumultuous events during the Chinese Civil War, the French Indochina War, and the American retreat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578909585Author Nicholas F BentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Bci BooksPublisher Bci BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998917665Author Gina GrandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint North American Case Research Association, IncPublisher North American Case Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692413500Author Sergiu Viorel UrmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Sergiu Viorel UrmaPublisher Sergiu Viorel UrmaWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998917641Author John J LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint North American Case Research Association, IncPublisher North American Case Research...

With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998917603Author John J LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint North American Case Research Association, IncPublisher North American Case Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994630841Author Mae AzangoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Forte PublishingPublisher Forte PublishingWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646953854Author Cliff PeelFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint BookpodPublisher BookpodWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998917610Author John J LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint North American Case Research Association, IncPublisher North American Case Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250897701Author Dan SlepianFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620931816Author Jedidiah RamalapaFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint African Sun MediaPublisher African Sun MediaWeight(grams) 148g